Stories tagged 'Barry L Stoddard'

Celebrating faculty and staff achievements

Nov. 19, 2015
| By Fred Hutch News Service staff

More than a dozen Fred Hutch scientists and staff participated in the ninth annual Life Sciences Research Weekend Nov. 6-8 at Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Read about this and more Good News at Fred Hutch.

Scientists have crafted a bacterium incapable of surviving without human assistance. Using this strategy to build genetically modified organisms would prevent those GMOs from escaping into natural ecosystems, they say.

Drs. Roland Strong and Barry Stoddard were part of the first U.S. group to launch scientific experiments 25 years ago on the Soviet space station

Dec. 18, 2014
| By Susan Keown / Fred Hutch News Service

Twenty-five years ago this month, Barry Stoddard, Roland Strong and their team members working with the U.S. company Payload Systems, Inc., launched the first-ever commercial American cargo up to the Soviet space station Mir, an event that gained global attention.

Scientists from Imperial College London and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have genetically modified the mosquito responsible for spreading malaria so the bugs produce mostly male offspring, a strategy that could eliminate the insect responsible for Africa's malaria plague.

Barry Stoddard and colleagues are first to show TAL effector structure, paving way for use in gene modification, engineering and corrective therapy

Jan. 9, 2012
| By Kristen Woodward

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a newly discovered type of gene-targeting protein shown to be useful as a DNA-targeting molecule for gene correction, gene therapy and gene modification. The findings were published online in Science Express on Jan. 5.